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Do you wanna know a secret? Encouraging clients to offload their secrets is likely to boost their wellbeing, suggests research. Keeping secrets takes its toll in the long term, not just because of the effort it takes to conceal them, but because of the associated mind-wandering, suggests research from Columbia University focusing on 10 studies examining the impact of secrecy day-on-day....